The Chiltern HundredsVirtue, 1897 - 220 էջ |
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... century . Its original intention was to prevent the formation of a court party , pledged by fruits of office , in the House of Commons itself ; inasmuch as it required that all members who are appointed to any place of honour and profit ...
... century . Its original intention was to prevent the formation of a court party , pledged by fruits of office , in the House of Commons itself ; inasmuch as it required that all members who are appointed to any place of honour and profit ...
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... century , encroached on the village common at Fingest for the purpose of enlarging his park . After his death his body was laid in the church , but his ghost , unable to rest on account of the injury inflicted on the parishioners , was ...
... century , encroached on the village common at Fingest for the purpose of enlarging his park . After his death his body was laid in the church , but his ghost , unable to rest on account of the injury inflicted on the parishioners , was ...
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... century mansion , lived , nearly a century ago , Charles François Dumoriez . Through the stormy years of the close of the eighteenth century , Dumoriez distinguished himself on the continent , both as statesman and soldier ; but ...
... century mansion , lived , nearly a century ago , Charles François Dumoriez . Through the stormy years of the close of the eighteenth century , Dumoriez distinguished himself on the continent , both as statesman and soldier ; but ...
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... century . " Fay ce que voudras " was the motto of those jovial spirits , as we may still read inscribed on the entrance door , but there are many who say that nothing more took place at Medmenham than a too free use of the wine- bottle ...
... century . " Fay ce que voudras " was the motto of those jovial spirits , as we may still read inscribed on the entrance door , but there are many who say that nothing more took place at Medmenham than a too free use of the wine- bottle ...
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... century . The front of this mansion is towards the east . It consisted of a centre and two wings , one of which is shown in our sketch . The lozenge on the porch bears the Duffield arms , beneath which is the motto of the eighteenth century ...
... century . The front of this mansion is towards the east . It consisted of a centre and two wings , one of which is shown in our sketch . The lozenge on the porch bears the Duffield arms , beneath which is the motto of the eighteenth century ...
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Abbey afterwards Amersham amongst ancient Beaconsfield beautiful Bedford beech beneath Bishop boys brasses Buckinghamshire building built Bulstrode buried Burnham called centre century Chalfont St chalk chancel chapel Charles Chenies Cheyne Chiltern Hills Chiltern Hundreds church churchyard Cliefden College Coln Countess Court Datchet daughter death Denham Desborough Desborough Hundred Despencer died early Edmund Edmund Waller Edward effigy erected Eton Eton College father Fingest Fleetwood garden George Gray Hedsor House hills Horace Walpole Horton Hughenden inscription John Milton King Lady lived London Lord Wharton manor mansion Marlow meadows Medmenham miles Milton Misbourn monument Norman notice old house parish park pass Penn poet Provost rebuilt residence Restoration Richard river river Coln round royal Russell side Sir John Sir William stands Stoke Pogis Thames Thomas Thomas Ellwood tomb tower town Vache valley village wall wife Windsor Wooburn woods Wyck Wycombe
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Էջ 72 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Էջ 74 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Էջ 112 - I modestly but freely told him : and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, Thou hast said much here of paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of paradise found...
Էջ 170 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Էջ 113 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Էջ 160 - Angling was, after tedious study, 'a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness ; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.
Էջ 81 - ... both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds...
Էջ 80 - The description of a road, which your coach wheels have so often honoured, it would be needless to give you ; suffice it that I arrived safe at my uncle's, who is a great hunter in imagination ; his dogs take up every chair in the house, so I am forced to stand at this present writing ; and though the gout forbids him galloping after them in the field, yet he continues still to 4 regale his ears and nose with their comfortable noise and stink.
Էջ 176 - I should much commend the tragical part, if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Doric delicacy in your Songs and Odes, whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language : Ipsa mollifies.
Էջ 74 - No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!